By Jeff A. Stuecheli, Power Systems Architect, IBM Cognitive Systems Earlier this week, another validation of the OpenPOWER Foundation’s model of collaborative innovation was… Read more
Prominent OpenPOWER Foundation members have provided the reasons they’re taking time out of their busy days to support the OpenPOWER Developer Congress and send… Read more
By Sumit Gupta, Vice President, IBM Cognitive Systems 10 years ago, every CEO leaned over to his or her CIO and CTO and said,… Read more
By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Community Manager with Canonical (04.13.17) We’ve all been to “those other” developer events: Sitting in a room watching a succession… Read more
About 25 participants came to attend the OpenPOWER Meetup in IIT Bombay. We had the following groups: IITB (4 groups), VIT Pune one group (working… Read more
By Andy Pearcy-Blowers, OpenPOWER Applications Engineer and IBM Portal for OpenPOWER Co-Lead & Luis Armenta, Sr. SI Engineer, Project Manager and IBM Portal for OpenPOWER Lead This… Read more
By Bryan Talik, President, OpenPOWER Foundation The old adage “birds of a feather flock together” often proves true, and the members of the OpenPOWER… Read more
As part of our commitment to delivering open technologies across many computing architectures, today Red Hat has joined the OpenPOWER Foundation, an open development… Read more
Dear OpenPOWER Members, The OpenPOWER Foundation had a great 2016. That momentum will lead us to greater community gains in 2017. In 2016, our… Read more
By Ganesan Narayanasamy, Leader, OpenPOWER Academic Discussion Group Academia has always been a leader in pushing the boundaries of science and technology, with some… Read more
By Timothy Pearson, Raptor Engineering Ever wish you could use something other than an insecure x86 or low-powered ARM machine to communicate with the OpenPOWER… Read more
By Alejandra Gando, Director of Communications, Yachay EP The pursuit of supercomputing represents a major step forward for Ecuador and Yachay EP, with IBM and… Read more
By Doug Miles, director of PGI compilers & tools, NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA introduced the first production release of the PGI Fortran, C and C++… Read more
By Mateo Valero and Enric Banda, Barcelona Supercomputing Center The last decade has seen a worldwide increasing interest in Precision Medicine (PM). As a result,… Read more
By Deepak Vinchhi, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Julia Computing, Inc. Deep Learning is now ubiquitous in the machine learning world, with useful applications… Read more
Calling all Treasure Hunters! We’re going to give you a chance to be a part of the OpenPOWER Revolution – but you’re going to have to… Read more
By Indrajit Poddar, Yu Bo Li, Qing Wang, Jun Song Wang, IBM These days you can see machine and deep learning applications in so… Read more
By Bruce Wile, CAPI Chief Engineer and Distinguished Engineer, IBM Power Systems Last week at OpenPOWER Summit Europe, we announced a brand-new Framework designed… Read more
By Bruce Wile, CAPI Chief Engineer and Distinguished Engineer, IBM Improving on the CAPI Base Technology In the datacenter, metrics matter. Competition between application… Read more
Eduard Ayguadé, Computer Sciences Associate Director at BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) is Spain’s National Supercomputing facility. Our mission is to investigate, develop… Read more
By Dr. Dirk Pleiter, Research Group Leader, Jülich Supercomputing Centre The Human Brain Project (HBP), a flagship project funded by the European Commission, has… Read more
By John Zannos, Chairman, OpenPOWER Foundation Developers play an integral role within the OpenPOWER ecosystem, and we’re passionate about welcoming them and their creative… Read more
By Andrea Bulgarelli, Chair, OpenPOWER Physical Science Work Group As the application of OpenPOWER technology expands, so too must the OpenPOWER Foundation continue to… Read more
By Adam McPadden, Lead Engineer, Burlington Systems Lab, IBM One of the key tenets of the OpenPOWER Foundation’s collaborative model is that having open… Read more
By Amanda Quartly, OpenPOWER Alliances Europe, IBM The only constant to being involved with the OpenPOWER Foundation is change and innovation, and there is… Read more
By Calista Redmond, President, OpenPOWER Foundation Recently at IBM Edge I had the pleasure of announcing the Finalists of the 2016 OpenPOWER Developer Challenge. … Read more
By Dr. VCV Rao, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing Recently, the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) in India held a three-day… Read more
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist, OpenPOWER Foundation Back in March, we told you about how OpenPOWER members StackVelocity, Mark III Systems, and Penguin Computing… Read more
By Professor P.S.V. Nataraj, Systems and Control Engineering Group, IIT Bombay During my visit to IBM, Bangalore in April 2014, the idea for having… Read more
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Engineer, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, IBM Systems I am pleased to announce a major update to the deep learning frameworks… Read more
By Ricardo Marin Matinata, Linux Architect, KVM and Cloud on POWER, IBM The initial version 0.5 (beta) of the OpenPOWER HostOS repository is available! As… Read more
By Amit Vij, CEO, Kinetica At Kinetica (formerly GPUdb), we have experienced first-hand how the massive hardware acceleration improvements made possible by OpenPOWER can have… Read more
By Mike Gschwind, Chief Engineer, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, IBM Cognitive Applications have transformed the face of computing and how humans interact with… Read more
By Juliana Rodrigues, Student, Unicamp (This post appears as part of our Developer Series. To learn more about what developers are doing with OpenPOWER,… Read more
By Ludovica Delpiano, E4 Computing E4’s mission, to drive innovation by implementing and integrating cutting-edge solutions with the best performance for every high-end computing… Read more
By Dr. Srini Chari, Managing Partner, Cabot Partners I’m pleased to announce the publication of Cabot Partners’ new Whitepaper, HPC and HPDA for the… Read more
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Engineer, Machine Learning and Deep Learning, IBM Systems I am pleased to announce that several major deep learning frameworks are now… Read more
By Takashi Yoshikawa and Shinji Abe, NEC Corporation The Resource Disaggregated (RD) Platform expands the use of cloud data centers in not only office… Read more
By Anil Godbole, Senior Marketing Manager, eASIC Corp. eASIC is very excited to join the OpenPOWER Foundation. One of the biggest value propositions of… Read more
By Xiaoyu Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin This post is the first in a series profiling the work developers are doing… Read more
What has over 50 new hardware reveals, collaboration from over 200 members like Google, Rackspace, IBM, and NVIDIA, and made headlines around the world? That’s… Read more
By Jeff Brown, Distinguished Engineer, Emerging Product Development at IBM Continuing the OpenPOWER Foundation’s momentum, we’ve launched the OpenPOWER Ready™ program at the OpenPOWER… Read more
By John Zannos, Chairman, OpenPOWER Foundation As we reach the pinnacle of our second OpenPOWER Summit in San Jose, I want to take a… Read more
By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Community Manager, Canonical One thing that unites my work at Canonical as an Ubuntu Community Manager with my work for… Read more
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist for OpenPOWER, IBM There are many faces that make up the OpenPOWER Foundation and its ecosystem. We have hardware… Read more
By Ganesan Narayanasamy, Senior Manager, IBM Systems Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) is the largest government funded research organization in Singapore,… Read more
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist Last year at Open Compute Summit,OpenPOWER member Rackspace stole the show when they announced their plans to develop Barreleye, their… Read more
By Dr. VCV Rao and Mr. Sanjay Wandheker An open ecosystem relies on collaboration to thrive, and at the Centre for Advanced Computing (C-DAC),… Read more
By Roy Graham, President and COO, DRC Computer Corp. New business models bring new opportunities, and my relationship with IBM is proof-positive of that fact.… Read more
By Brian Larsen, Director, Partner Business Development, Brocade In my 32 year career in the IT industry there has never been a better time… Read more
By Calista Redmond, President, OpenPOWER Foundation OpenPOWER Summit is coming up April 5-8 in San Jose and we want you there! In fact, we’re… Read more
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Architect & Senior Manager, Power System Architecture, IBM I am excited to announce the availability of the next generation of the… Read more
By Ganesan Narayanasamy (OpenPOWER Academic Discussion Group Leader) Before SC15 would kick off on November 15th, about 40 of the 170+ members of the… Read more
By John Zannos and Calista Redmond Dear Fellow Innovators, As the newly elected Chair and President of the OpenPOWER Foundation, we would like to… Read more
By Sam Ponedal, Social Strategist for OpenPOWER Episode 8: OpenPOWER OpenPOWER A dark empire has spread across the Compute Galaxy. Driven by a zealous… Read more
By Zaid Al-Ars, Cofounder, Bluebee and Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation Personalized Medicine Working Group More than 40 participants attended the OpenPOWER Personalized Medicine… Read more
By OpenPOWER Foundation Last month the OpenPOWER Foundation was in full force at Supercomputing 2015 in Austin, TX. We had a great time networking… Read more
By Jack Wells, PhD, Director of Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory The mission of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is to deliver scientific discoveries… Read more
By Zaid Al-Ars, Cofounder, Bluebee, Chair of the OpenPOWER Foundation Personalized Medicine Working Group, and Assistant Professor at Delft University of Technology The collaboration… Read more
By Michael Gschwind, Chief Architect & Senior Manager, Power System Architecture, IBM When we founded OpenPOWER to create a new inclusive ecosystem built… Read more
By Shinji Abe, Senior Manager for IT Platform Division of NEC As usage of the cloud expands, cloud data centers will need to be… Read more
By Richard Talbot, Director – Big Data, Analytics and Cloud Infrastructure No doubt, the words “surgery” and “human genome” rarely appear in the same… Read more
By Michaela Blott, Principal Engineer, Xilinx Research First, a bit of background– I lead a research team in the European headquarters of Xilinx where… Read more
By Christine M. Follett, Marketing Communications Manager, American Megatrends, Inc. As one of the newest members of the OpenPOWER Foundation, we at American Megatrends,… Read more
By Aaron Sullivan, Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, Rackspace In an open community, with great partners, it’s amazing how fast things get done. At… Read more
By Scot Schultz Director of HPC and Technical Computing, Mellanox Business Challenge Some computing jobs are so large that they must be split into… Read more
By Brad Brech, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Power Systems Solutions Business Challenge Suppose you’re a game developer with a release coming up. If things go… Read more
By Sumit Gupta, VP, HPC & OpenPOWER Operations at IBM This blog is part of a series: Pt 2: Using CAPI and Flash for larger,… Read more
By Larry Vertal, Data Center Marketing, Asetek Asetek® joined the OpenPOWER™ Foundation in July of this year with great enthusiasm. As the world’s leading… Read more
By Brad McCredie, President, OpenPOWER Foundation The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. – Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher Two years ago,… Read more
By Randall Ross, Ubuntu Recently, the German IT company teuto.net, which specializes in providing hosting, cloud and web development services based on open source… Read more
By Dr. Jane Yu, Solution Architect for Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM When the Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, it was a… Read more
By Patrick Brooks, PGI Product Marketing Manager Last November at Supercomputing 2014, we announced that the PGI compilers for high-performance computing were coming to… Read more
By: Michael Leventhal, Technical Manager, Data Center Acceleration, Xilinx Xilinx believes that we, in collaboration with the OpenPOWER Foundation, are spearheading a new era… Read more
In the latest announcement (UK Government Invests £115 Million in Big Data and Cognitive Computing Research with STFC and IBM), the STFC Hartree Center… Read more
By Brad McCredie, President The release this week of Intel’s new 18-core Haswell-EX chip, gives us an opportunity to gauge how OpenPOWER technology and… Read more
By Bradley McCredie President, OpenPOWER Foundation As we prepare to join the computing world in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law, we can’t… Read more
Abstract The hybrid CPU-GPU architecture is one of the main tracks for dealing with the power limitations imposed on high performance computing systems. It… Read more
By Gordon MacKean, OpenPOWER Chairman We are here, we made it: the OpenPOWER Foundation’s inaugural Summit, “Rethink the Data Center,” starts tomorrow! I wanted… Read more
By Terri Virnig, Vice President of Power Ecosystem and Strategy, IBM Systems It is hard to believe that this semester’s Innov8 with POWER8 Challenge has… Read more
Executive Summary The increasing use of smart phones, sensors and social media is a reality across many industries today. It is not just where… Read more
Abstract In this technology preview demonstration, we will show the concurrent execution of an analytical workload on a POWER8 server with K40 GPUs. DB2… Read more
By Carol B. Hernandez, Sr. Technical Staff Member, Power Systems Design Deploying POWER8 virtual machines for your projects is straightforward and fast using OVH… Read more
By: Gordon MacKean, OpenPOWER Chairman Today the OpenPOWER Foundation hit a new milestone. We are now officially 101 members strong. But, we all know… Read more
1 OpenPOWER started with one shared idea — to drive more innovation in the data center. 5 Beginning with five founders — IBM, Google, NVIDIA,… Read more
by Jeff Scheel, IBM Linux on Power Chief Engineer Since its inception, the OpenPOWER Foundation has been dedicated to fostering a collaborative environment to… Read more
National Center for Computational Sciences Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge, TN, USA Abstract Hybrid CPU+GPU architectures are a response to power limitations imposed… Read more
– > 30 presentations on wide field of OpenPOWER topics – demo pavilion – isv roundtable – firmware training Its going to be an… Read more
Abstract Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a minimally-invasive cancer therapy which uses a light-activated drug (photosensitizer/PS). When the photosensitizer absorbs a photon, it excites tissue oxygen… Read more
Presentation Objective In this talk, we will gain an understanding of Data center and Cloud computing market landscape and challenges, discuss technology challenges that… Read more
Introduction to Authors Song Yu: Male, IBM STG China, Development Manager Li Guang Cheng: Male, IBM STG China, xCAT Senior Architect Mao Qiu Yin:… Read more
Speaker’s Bio Satish Kumar Sadasivam is a Senior Performance Engineer and a Master Inventor at IBM STG responsible for Compiler and Hardware Performance analysis… Read more
Objective The objective is to position China POWER Technology Alliance (CPTA) as a mechanism to help global OpenPOWER Foundation members engage with China organizations… Read more
Objective Demonstrate POWER processor and memory capabilities that can be exploited using open source OCC firmware. Abstract The On Chip Controller (OCC) is a co-processor… Read more
Abstract OpenStack is one of the popular software that people use to run a cloud. It managers hardware resources like memory, disks, X86 and… Read more
Abstract SuperVessel cloud (www.ptopenlab.com) is the cloud platform built on top of POWER/OpenPOWER architecture technologies. It aims to provide the open remote access for… Read more
Introduction to Authors Bin Xu: Male, IBM STG China, advisory software engineer, PCM architect, mainly focus on High Performance Computing and Software Define environment.… Read more
Presentation Objective How to optimize your application to fully exploit the functionality of your POWER system. Abstract This presentation will provide the latest news… Read more
Presentation Objective Provide information on the integration the nVidia Tesla GPU with IBM’s POWER8 processor and details on how to develop on this platform… Read more
Abstract The POWER8 processor is the latest RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) microprocessor from IBM and the first processor supporting the new OpenPOWER software… Read more
Speakers: Bruce D’Amora and Gordon Fossum Organization: IBM T.J. Watson Research, Data Centric Systems Group Abstract The traditional workflow for high-performance computing simulation and… Read more
Objective To show-case a broadly relevant data center application on FPGAs and OpenPOWER and the benefits it can bring To demonstrate the advantages that… Read more
Presentation Objectives Invited to participate in OpenPOWER Foundation, TYAN developed the OpenPOWER reference board following the spirit of innovation and collaboration that defines the… Read more
Introduction to Authors Mao Qiu Yin: Male, Teamsun, Director Zhiqiang Tian: Male, Teamsun, SW Developer Background The computer system security problem is more and… Read more
Author: Chandler Wilkerson, Rice University Objective To describe the challenges and lessons learned while installing the IBM Power Ready Platform for Genomic Workflow Acceleration on… Read more
Objectives Provide Rackspace’s a point of view about what “the Cloud” needs from OpenPOWER, OCP, and developers in major software initiatives (Open Stack, Linux,… Read more
Speaker Mr. Zhu Ya Dong, Chairman of PowerCore, China, Platinum Member of OpenPOWER Foundation Objective The objective is to position China POWER Technology Alliance… Read more
Organization PMC-Sierra, OpenPOWER Silver Member Objective The objective of this presentation is to showcase how NVM Express and CAPI can be used together to… Read more
Presentation objective PGI Fortran, C and C++ compilers & tools are used on Linux/x86 processor-based systems at over 5000 high-performance computing (HPC) sites around the… Read more
Abstract Learn how applications can be accelerated on IBM Power8 systems with NVIDIA® Tesla® Accelerated Computing Platform, the leading platform for accelerating big data analytics and scientific computing. The platform combines the world’s fastest GPU accelerators,… Read more
Speaker: Allan Cantle – President & Founder, Nallatech Speaker Organization: ISI / Nallatech Presentation Objective To introduce the audience to IBM’s Coherent Attached Processor… Read more
Abstract Mellanox Technologies is a founding member of the OpenPOWER Foundation and is also the foundation for scalable and performance demanding computing infrastructures. Delivering… Read more
Hadoop workloads are memory and compute intensive and Power servers are best choice for hadoop workloads. The Power servers are first processor designed to… Read more
Speaker and co-authors Dirk Pleiter (Jülich Supercomputing Centre) Andrew Adinets (JSC), Hans Böttiger (IBM), Paul Baumeister (JSC), Thorsten Hater (JSC), Uwe Fischer (IBM) Abstract… Read more
Introduction to Authors Min Xue Bin: Male, IBM STG China, advisory software engineer, LSF developer, mainly focus on High Performance Computing. Ding Zhao Hui:… Read more
Presented by: Michael Gschwind Over the past three decades, the Power Architecture has been an important asset in IBM’s systems strategy. During the time, Power-based… Read more
Abstract Planning for exascale, accelerating time to discovery and extracting results from massive data sets requires organizations to continually seek faster and more efficient… Read more
Objective Geared towards a business audience that has some understanding of POWER and cloud technology, and would like to gain a better understanding of… Read more
Abstract The OpenPower architecture provides unique capabilities which will enable highly effective and differentiated acceleration solutions. The OpenPower Accelerator Workgroup is chartered to develop… Read more
Abstract and Objectives Stock, futures, and option exchanges; market makers; hedge funds; and traders require real-time knowledge of the best bid and ask prices… Read more
The OpenPOWER Foundation is certainly carrying some strong momentum as it enters its second year. As we look forward there are many things still… Read more
Abstract As the Chair of the OpenPOWER Technical Steering Committee Mr. Brown will be discussing the technical agenda of the OpenPOWER Foundation and the… Read more
Abstract It’s been nearly a year since the public launch of OpenPower and the community of technology leaders that make up our community have made… Read more
Rapid Growth of the OpenPOWER Foundation Reflects the Need for IT Collaboration and Innovation that Extends Down to the Chip By Calista Redmond, Director,… Read more
by Todd Rosedahl, Chief Energy Management Engineer on POWER Today, IBM has released another key piece of infrastructure to the OpenPOWER community. The firmware… Read more
By Mark Harris With the US Department of Energy’s announcement of plans to base two future flagship supercomputers on IBM POWER CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, and… Read more
By Ken King, GM of OpenPOWER Alliances, IBM Last week, SC14 brought together the brightest minds and organizations in the high-performance computing (HPC) industry.… Read more
By Scot Schultz, Director of HPC and Technical Computing, Mellanox Technologies Mellanox has partnered with IBM and a group of fellow OpenPOWER Foundation member… Read more
By Brad McCredie, President of OpenPOWER and IBM Fellow and Vice President of Power Development On Monday IBM and GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced that they had… Read more
Innovative, Collaborative and Open Open resources, management flexibility, and hardware customization are becoming more important to IT experts across various industries. To meet the… Read more
By Terri Virnig, Vice President, Power Ecosystem and Strategy, IBM Systems & Technology Group Last year, IBM and the founders of the OpenPOWER Foundation… Read more
By Jim Zemlin – August 25, 2014 It’s no secret that open development is the key to rapid and continuous technology innovation. Openly sharing… Read more
By Michael Gschwind, STSM & Senior Manager, System Architecture, IBM Later today at HOT CHIPS a leading semiconductor conference, I will be providing an update on… Read more
We are excited with the progress that the OpenPOWER Foundation member companies have made since our public launch in San Francisco back in April. Members can… Read more
People and businesses today are rapidly adopting new technologies and devices that are transforming the way they interact with each other and their data.… Read more
If Ubuntu Linux is to prove truly competitive in theOpenStack cloud and Big Data worlds, it needs to run on more than x86 hardware. And that’s whatCanonical achieved… Read more
The litany of computing buzzwords has been repeated so often that we’ve almost glazed over: mobile, social, cloud, crowd, big data, analytics. After a… Read more
Since its development in the 1990s, IBM Power Systems served databases. They crunched big data for big business better than anyone else in the… Read more
There was something I missed on the IBM strategy when they sold x86 branch to Lenovo. Since I read some articles about OpenPower and Google home made… Read more
It’s no secret that IBM wants to move its technology into the kind of data centers that Google GOOGL -0.47% and other Web giants operate. Now comes evidence… Read more